It all started with an unremarkable trip to grandma’s house in 1970. But two days into the visit, something went terribly wrong. The 9-month-old grandson fell ill. First, a fever. Then, a nasty rash.

A dangerous new strain of mpox is on the rise in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to reports from BBC. This year alone, there have been nearly 8,000 cases in the country from the virus with ...

Sometimes great successes have unintended consequences. That's the case with one of the world's biggest triumphs - the eradication of smallpox. That achievement may have set the stage for an outbreak ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Foege in 1990: although his worldwide vaccination scheme initially met with some resistance, it was crucial to the worldwide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Frederick biotechnology company BioFactura has announced $7.8 million in new contract activations to study a treatment for a ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case occurred ...

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. There have been over 15,600 cases and over 530 deaths reported in the Democratic Republic ...

Oct. 19 -- Smallpox was one of the deadliest diseases ever to afflict the human race, until a worldwide effort succeeded in eradicating it from the planet 25 years ago. But the events of the past few ...

Health authorities converged on a Northwest Airlines flight from San Francisco to Memphis after a passenger remarked that a rash on his neck might be a result of smallpox, officials said today. The 40 ...